The Brickset Builders Guild - share your MOCs here!

Comments

@vitreolum, for what it's worth, you're doing better than me. I just worked it out, if I keep having good weeks (3 supporters a week), it will only take approximately sixty four years to reach 10,000...

I'm planning to kick my butt into gear this week & getting moving on Tumblr again, would you be okay with me writing a small piece on your project (was planning to do a few articles on projects I think deserve a bit more attention).

Because Lego aren't going to, and after what Fox just did, who can blame them - the Fantasticar:

Based kinda-sorta on the four-pod version (which appeared in the Lego Marvel Superheroes game) but improvising pretty freely around the theme, to take advantage of whatever white parts turned up when I went rummaging through the storage boxes (like the engine pods, which were sitting practically on top of the pile so I could hardly pass on them).

So now that's done, time to hit wikipedia and find out which minifigs I've got were FF members at one time or another to fill it...

@MissKittyFantastico, the bigger issue with FF is the same as with X-Men, Fox currently holds the movie rights to their characters. Because Fox refuses to talk with MARVEL about crossovers or simply giving the rights back, MARVEL is trying to limit merch for these franchises, the mindset is to not give Fox any help with promoting these characters (heck, MARVEL cancelled the FF comic just to really send a message). So MARVEL aren't likely to give Lego the go ahead to do a FF set, likewise, the last wave had no X-Men sets, nor are there any in the announced sets for 2016.

Bit ropey around the edges (it's half design, half 'what can I do with the pieces I have in this colour'), but it hit the points I was aiming for: old-style stone for the most part, with mad science on the top levels. The cross-piece of the '4' looks thin under camera flash, but luckily in normal lighting it casts a wider shadow than the other beams, which gives the illusion of the proper shape. The whole thing's sized to fit alongside #76005 Daily Bugle and #76038 Avengers Tower on my Marvel New York shelf, which means there's no way the Fantasticar was ever going to be able to fit on a rooftop landing pad, but eh, them's the brakes. (Yes, I know it's missing a little bit from the stonework on the left, when I find one I'll add it on. Let's just pretend it got knocked off last time Doom visited and hasn't been fixed yet.)

So I built a thingy for @rdflego 's car-boat-heli-plane-rocket thread, and it was fun, but I decided not a keeper for the shelves. But after dismantling it, I still had Jesse St Claire - the driver minifig I put together during the build - and she was kind of insistent on having something that goes really fast. This is really how my mind works. So, Javelin:

No M.A.S.K. transformation in this incarnation, but from the original I kept the wheels and the arrangement of an offset cockpit on one side (the wrong side, for roads here, but I'm not a driver so that didn't occur to me until some time into the build) and the engine on the other; had a lot of fun devising all the techy bits for that engine (yes, I know the turbine is right where the front wheel would be continually kicking gravel into it; let's assume there's some ingenious reason that doesn't happen). I decided to leave the stickers on as car decorations, and eventually decided the canopy was being more trouble than it was worth, the absence of which led to a kind of future-retro open top race car look, which I grew fond of the more I worked on it. I do intend to rustle up some alternate hubcaps for the front wheels, to lose the Ultra Agents colours (although in my headcanon, Jesse is a Lady Penelope-style ally of Ky's super-truck team; what, there's a lot of searching through storage bins for the right part, my imagination wanders).

Brickset.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, the Amazon.com.ca, Inc. Associates Program and the Amazon EU Associates Programme, which are affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.